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AMD Releases Spectre v2 Microcode Updates for CPUs Going Back To 2011 (bleepingcomputer.com)
Catalin Cimpanu, writing for BleepingComputer: AMD has released CPU microcode updates for processors affected by the Spectre variant 2 (CVE-2017-5715) vulnerability. The company has forwarded these microcode updates to PC and motherboard makers to include them in BIOS updates. Updates are available for products released as far as 2011, for the first processors of the Bulldozer line. Microsoft has released KB4093112, an update that also includes special OS-level patches for AMD users in regards to the Spectre v2 vulnerability. Similar OS-level updates have been released for Linux users earlier this year. Yesterday's microcode patches announcement is AMD keeping a promise it made to users in January, after the discovery of the Meltdown and Spectre (v1 and v2) vulnerabilities.
Stop lying. Almost everything newer than Core 2 Duo is already patched on Intel side.
https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/04/microcode-update-guidance.pdf
Spectre variant 2 even when mitigated by software-only workarounds has almost no performance penalties.
It's variant 3 (Meltdown) which is Intel-only that has from almost no (gaming) to huge (heavy I/O like Redis which gets almost halved performance) impact.
Stop lying. Almost everything newer than Core 2 Duo is already patched on Intel side.
Not only is that not true, but Intel has announced that it never will be true.
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